Legislators condemn rookie lawmaker who thinks 900 dead in Israel attack is a human rights protest

Oct 10, 2023

Less than a month on the job and rookie state Rep. Tim Hernández is being condemned by lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle for whitewashing atrocities carried out by Hamas in Israel as a human rights issue.

The Palestinian government’s weekend terrorist attack served as a declaration of war on the Jewish state, as Hamas gunned down hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets, and killing nearly 300 people at a dance party.

Women, children, and a Holocaust victim were kidnapped and taken to Gaza where they are threatened with execution, and thousands of rockets were launched over the Holy Land.

The socialist Democrat who represents Denver insists these are not actions of terrorism or war, just a nuanced history that demands our understanding and sympathy.

Ah yes, the nuisance of ethnic genocide.

Hernández is trying to worm his way of his own statements and actions after attending a Saturday rally with a couple dozen Palestinian supporters.

Former state Rep. Rob Fairbank called Hernández out on X, and the backlash was swift.

State Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet of Commerce City was the first Democrat to criticize Hernández for attending “a rally in support of the unconscionable terrorist campaign unfolding against thousands of Jewish families in Israel.”

“Further, his posting of harmful rhetoric supporting the terrorist actions on social media is reprehensible and dangerous.”

State Rep. Lisa Frizell, Castle Rock Republican, also called on the House Democrats to “formally reprimand Rep. Tim Hernández. His behavior and support for terrorists is beyond reproach.”

Jimmy Segenberger writes in The Gazette that Hernández tried to have it both ways in in a private chat thread that was screenshot.

“There is no excusing violence for anybody,” he wrote, “but as people who represent all people in colorado, including Palestinians, interrogating this issue with a full set of information is imperative before we moralize who is on a side of an issue by labeling some as ‘terrorists.’”

Memo to Hernández: Hamas, which governs two million Palestinians in Gaza, was designated as “foreign terrorist organization” by the U.S. State Department in 1997.

Attacking a country by land, sea and air and killing nearly 1,000 people is not a mostly peaceful protest for human rights.

It’s an act of war.

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